CONE Centre for Organic and Nanohybrid Electronics

Dr Katarzyna Krukiewicz, PhD. DSc., is a specialist in the field of advanced electroactive materials and their use in biomedical engineering. Her research is focused on the application of conducting polymeric materials and their composites for the diagnostics and electro-assisted therapy. She authored and co-authored over 80 publications in the field of biomedical engineering and bioelectrochemistry, over 40 conference proceedings, and two patents. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the National University of Ireland in Galway, and a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge, University of Grenoble, and Helmholtz Zentrum fűr Materialen und Energie in Berlin.

Research interests:

• application of electrochemical methods to study biological systems,
• electrochemical synthesis of coatings,
• surface functionalization of biomedical devices,
• development of controlled drug delivery systems,
• design of biomaterials.

Projects:

1. Multilayer electroactive coatings with hierarchical structure for controlled delivery of neurotransmitters, 2022-2027, NCN-Sonata bis: 2021/42/E/ST5/00165 – principal investigator
2. Collagen carriers for the multifunctional combination of medicines in brain cancer therapy, 2024-2025, MNiSW: SKN/SP/601279/2024 - principal investigator
3. Conducting polymer coatings exhibiting bacteria-responsive antibacterial properties – synthesis, structure and mutual interactions, 2022-2026, NCN-Preludium Bis: 2021/43/O/ST5/02623 – principal investigator
4. Biofunctionalized organic surfaces for neuroelectronic interfaces, 2020-2023, NCN-Opus: 2019/35/B/ST5/00995 – principal investigator
5. Electroactive polymers as coatings suitable for controlling the growth of bacterial biofilm, 2017-2020, NCN-Sonata: 2016/23/D/ST5/01306 – principal investigator
6. Sepsis biomarkers sensitive and selective sensor by functional UiO-68 MOF@MXene composite electrode, 2023-2025, NCN Polonez bis 2022/47/P/ST5/02216 – mentor
7. Dendritic Gold Nanostructures Decorated Graphene as an Electrochemical Biosensor towards Cancer Biomarker CA 125 for the Early Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer, 2023-2025, NCN Polonez bis 2022/45/P/ST5/03340 - mentor